Say You’ll Be My Jaan by Naina Kumar EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Naina Kumar
- Language: English
- Genre: contemporary romance
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“Ms. Raman, what’s an ‘arse’?”
Meghna Raman’s eyes snapped to her sixth-grade student,
Paige, who sat crisscross applesauce on the floor with the
others as they went through their scripts, highlighting their respective lines.
“A what?”
“An ‘arse,’” Paige replied, pointing at the piece of paper in front of her.
“It says it right here. Eliza goes to that horse race and tells the horse to
move its ‘bloomin’ arse.’”
A few of the students snickered, and Meghna let out a sigh. She’d meant
to edit that line before passing out the scripts, but it had completely slipped
her mind. To be fair, she’d only had three days to prepare for this first day
of rehearsal. Only three days to wrap her mind around directing the middle
school’s fall production of My Fair Lady.
“It’s ‘ass,’” seventh grader Derek told Paige with a smirk. “It’s the way
English people say ‘ass.’”
“Though we’ll be using the word ‘bum,’” Meghna quickly added. She
didn’t want any emails from the parents complaining about this. “I’ll send
out a new version of the script tomorrow.”
“So, now it’ll be ‘move your bloomin’ bum,’” a student whispered
loudly, sending the room into another round of giggles.
Meghna shook her head, holding back the grin threatening to break
across her face. Teaching wasn’t exactly her dream job, but she loved these
kids. Even when they drove her up the wall. She checked the clock,
wrapped up rehearsal, and headed home to a thrilling night of grading
papers.
But before she had even set foot inside her apartment, her phone rang.
She blew out a breath and answered without even checking to see who it
was. She knew exactly who was calling.
“Hi, Mom,” she said as she unlocked the front door.
Her mother greeted her enthusiastically, asked about her day, then
launched into a recitation of everything that had happened during Meghna’s
brother’s visit last weekend.
“Beta, he wanted to cook dinner on Saturday and he made macaroni and
cheese. Macaroni and cheese,” her mother repeated incredulously. “It tasted
like nothing. Like air. I tried to mix in a little mango achar to give it some
flavor, but—”
Meghna shuddered at the thought of what that would taste like. “I’m
guessing that didn’t work?”
“Not at all.”
Meghna chucked off her shoes and headed toward the kitchen. “Well, I’m
glad Samir was able to visit you and Dad this time. Even if it resulted in
mac and cheese.” She infused the words with all the horror and melodrama
her mother had. “I know you’ve both been missing him.”
“We were happy to see him,” her mother said. “He’s very busy, but we
understand. Being an engineer takes a lot of hard work.”
Meghna grimaced, dropped a stack of mail on her kitchen counter, and
settled in. She knew the exact speech her mother was about to deliver.
She’d heard it so many times over the years. She’d even given it a few
titles: “The Difficult but Satisfying Life of an Engineer”
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